Keep Meaning in Conversational Coordination

Coordination is a widely employed term across recent quantitative and qualitative approaches to intersubjectivity, particularly approaches that give embodiment and enaction central explanatory roles. With a focus on linguistic and bodily coordination in conversational contexts, I review the operatio...

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Main Author: Elena Clare Cuffari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01397/full
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spelling doaj-24b044a1e8d447ab9e92c21b9d0e85b12020-11-25T01:01:17ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782014-12-01510.3389/fpsyg.2014.01397100130Keep Meaning in Conversational CoordinationElena Clare Cuffari0Elena Clare Cuffari1Worcester State UniversityUniversity of the Basque CountryCoordination is a widely employed term across recent quantitative and qualitative approaches to intersubjectivity, particularly approaches that give embodiment and enaction central explanatory roles. With a focus on linguistic and bodily coordination in conversational contexts, I review the operational meaning of coordination in recent empirical research and related theorizing of embodied intersubjectivity. This discussion articulates what must be involved in treating linguistic meaning as dynamic processes of coordination. The coordination approach presents languaging as a set of dynamic self-organizing processes and actions on multiple timescales and across multiple modalities that come about and work in certain domains (those jointly constructed in social, interactive, high-order sense-making). These processes go beyond meaning at the level that is available to first-person experience. I take one crucial consequence of this to be the ubiquitously moral nature of languaging with others. Languaging coordinates experience, among other levels of behavior and event. Ethical effort is called for by the automatic autonomy-influencing forces of languaging as coordination.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01397/fullEthicssocial interactioncoordinationenactionexperienceDistributed cognition
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Keep Meaning in Conversational Coordination
Frontiers in Psychology
Ethics
social interaction
coordination
enaction
experience
Distributed cognition
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title Keep Meaning in Conversational Coordination
title_short Keep Meaning in Conversational Coordination
title_full Keep Meaning in Conversational Coordination
title_fullStr Keep Meaning in Conversational Coordination
title_full_unstemmed Keep Meaning in Conversational Coordination
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publishDate 2014-12-01
description Coordination is a widely employed term across recent quantitative and qualitative approaches to intersubjectivity, particularly approaches that give embodiment and enaction central explanatory roles. With a focus on linguistic and bodily coordination in conversational contexts, I review the operational meaning of coordination in recent empirical research and related theorizing of embodied intersubjectivity. This discussion articulates what must be involved in treating linguistic meaning as dynamic processes of coordination. The coordination approach presents languaging as a set of dynamic self-organizing processes and actions on multiple timescales and across multiple modalities that come about and work in certain domains (those jointly constructed in social, interactive, high-order sense-making). These processes go beyond meaning at the level that is available to first-person experience. I take one crucial consequence of this to be the ubiquitously moral nature of languaging with others. Languaging coordinates experience, among other levels of behavior and event. Ethical effort is called for by the automatic autonomy-influencing forces of languaging as coordination.
topic Ethics
social interaction
coordination
enaction
experience
Distributed cognition
url http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01397/full
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